Improvement in harness-buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcno GEORGE RIEGER, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,361, dated January 13, 1874; application filed November 8, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE RINGEN, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Harness-Buckle, of which the following is a specification My invention relates to a form of buckle in which a projection from the plate or frame is substituted for the ordinary tongue.

The ligure is a perspective View of the buckle.

Arepresents theframe or plate of the buckle, and is similar in form and construction to the frames in general use, with this exception: On the under side of the plate is a projection or pin, S, which is a permanent part of the plate.

` To the rear of the frame is pivot-ed the tongue B in the usual manner. This tongue has an oriice to receive the end of the pin, and thus gives the pin additional support. Near the front end of the tongue is attached a permato enter the" hole of the strap, and is thus securely held. U What I claim as my invention is- The improved buckle, consisting of tongue B, having a permanent metallic loop, and the plate A, with pin S, arranged substantially as described,

GEORGE RIEGER.

Witnesses:

BARTON PIGKERING, W; H. CLARK. 

